Hi there, On Wednesday, 13. January 2010, you wrote: > on linux, iputils-ping is frequently used. It is also the default one > for nagios plugins. Therefore nagios is currently uninstallable on > GNU/kFreeBSD, see #555532. > > For proper funcionality of nagios is needed to implement this option > of iputils-ping:
on behalf of the Nagios maintainers ... without this deadline option, we run
into the 10 seconds timout such often, that it is not possible to use the host
alive check in a productive environment, as there are to much false positives.
> -w deadline
> Specify a timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of
> how many packets have been sent or received. In this case ping
> does not stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for
> deadline expire or until count probes are answered or for some
> error notification from network.
also really good would be:
-W timeout
Time to wait for a response, in seconds. The option affects only
timeout in absense of any responses, otherwise ping waits for two
RTTs.
As long as we have this issue open, check_ping is likely unusable on all
supported non-linux archs on debian.
Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
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